Decoding Japan’s Political Trajectory in 2024
As 2024 opens, Japan’s politics, particularly the fortunes of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is witnessing an accelerated downward spiral. A week after Kishida sacked four cabinet ministers implicated in a major fund-raising scandal in mid-December, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office raided the offices of two powerful LDP factions (namely the […]